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Fake news stories in the old sense, plus misleading headlines, are presented among other stories by news aggregators or political sites, for financial or political gain. There are also fake news websites which run only stories that have no basis in fact but are presented as being factually accurate. [18]
Fake news websites played a large part in the online news community during the election, reinforced by extreme exposure on Facebook and Google. [35] Approximately 115 pro-Trump fake stories were shared on Facebook a total of 30 million times, and 41 pro-Clinton fake stories shared a total of 7.6 million times.
Fake news negatively affected individuals in Myanmar, leading to a rise in violence against Muslims in the country. [121] [18] Online participation surged from one percent to 20 percent of Myanmar's total populace from 2014 to 2016. [121] [18] Fake stories from Facebook were reprinted in paper periodicals called Facebook and The Internet. [18]
Debate over the impact of fake news in the November 2016 United States presidential election, and whether or not it significantly impacted the election of the Republican candidate Donald Trump, whom the most shared fake stories favored, [27] [28] led researchers from Stanford to study the impact of fake news shared on social media, where 62% of ...
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The FBI has warned lawmakers in classified briefings that the Chinese Communist Party is crafting fake stories to portray them in a negative light because of their support for Taiwan.
In the Information Age, social networking sites have become a notable agent for the spread of misinformation, fake news, and propaganda. [126] [78] [127] [128] [129] Social media sites have changed their algorithms to prevent the spread of fake news but the problem still exists. [130]
One clear outcome of the 2016 U.S. election is growing awareness of the problem of “fake,” or patently false, news that spreads widely on social media.